skells @skells@social.cleverlibre.org

#science #math #probability #bayesian #xkcd
🔗 https://xkcd.com/2545/

I just want you guys to know that the multiple *years* I've had my music on Spotify and iTunes have still made me less money than the first two weeks of the same albums on Bandcamp.

Please support artists directly if you can.

Our civilization is filled with people who fear the judgment of their peers way more than they fear the judgment of God. This has historically been the recipe for the creation of man-made humanitarian crises.

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@skells i really don't know shit about it and think the nazi/evola obsession with Indian mysticism is a little retarded, however they're not even trying when it comes to gatekeeping on it. it's literally the exact same theory, one with a different name. and one of them is fine and the other is debunked pure evil

```Work expands so as to fill the time available for it's completion'''

I'm so proud to hold in my hands the book which not only formalized this breakthrough in business and administration, but also introduced story of the bikeshed which lead to the term "bikeshedding".

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I mean, what is a town? I have a pretty good idea of what a city is: a pile of loans surrounded by people who don't necessarily pay those loans, surrounded by people whose incomes are a withdrawal account for the people in the middle, there.

But what would a self-sufficient town be in the modern age? Let's look past the things that anarchists and libertarians already do well to the things much harder to just do for yourself -- water, sewage, and internet. The former two is an infrastructural effort for everyone involved; regardless if you're taking the sanitation process or the reuse philosophy or some mix of the two, eventually all the water and waste has to go somewhere and it's a good idea to know where beforehand. The internet is a little easier; that bill can be turned into a smart contract, perhaps, to be contingent on use as a service.

Voluntarism is one thing, but the scale of work and the specialties and skills necessary to build a town don't necessarily match up with the scale of work and the specialties and skills necessary to maintain a town. It's not a town without a bar, and that bar is going to have to get shipments of liquor. It's not a town without a grocer and that grocer needs paths for the farmers, ranchers and dairies to travel up. So muh roads, but we have the means to create financial instruments associated only with the town, and funded voluntarily by its homesteaders, and those roads also make good routing for internet trunk lines, fibre optic, sewage routes, and more -- if people wanted to make local solar credits of their turbines and panels, that could be done very easily as well.

I was worried about it at first but the flexibility of having financial instruments owned not by the bank but by those with staked interest in the instrument's physical anchoring really does give a lot of leeway. But it nonetheless does need to be considered -- and depending how planning-first or organic-necessity you're going to go with it, take it from there.